audio tape to disc

[jondi]

Is it possible to transfer audio tape onto my hard drive then burn to disc, and if so what software should I use. THANX

[mats.hogberg]

No problems - Hook up your tape deck to line in on your audio card. Use ie Goldwave or other audio s/w to capture the audio.

/Mats

[ya_jai]

May I add sth here.

I use Sound forge to capture wave sound then split one big wave file into seperate tracks. Then you can burn this wave file with any audio burning software. With some software which is not support burning directly from wave then you have to encode to mp3 first. I'd suggest NERO which is not the best but easy to get your job done (NERO support both mp3 and wave file)

Don't forget to set your audio recorder to PCM 44,100 Hz 16bit for better quality sound.

[darkelf]

Soundforge is a good app to use, and is fairly inexpensive.

Personally I use CoolEdit Pro v1.2 which is much more powerful, but albeit at a price.

Hook up your tape deck to your Line-IN on the sound card.

Check the volume settings for that input (systray speaker icon), make sure that MUTE is not checked for your selected source.

Now all you need to do is start your recording program on the PC in motion, then start your Audio source.

As mentioned before, it is advised to 'capture' the audio at CD-quality (44.1kHz/16bit/Stereo). That way you will get the best practical sound quality from your tapes.

Once you have the files (should have been recorded as Microsoft-WAV files) you can edit them to your hearts content in SF/CoolEd/whatever.

Save the fixed sound files. Now you can convert to MP3, MP2 (to play on your non-mp3 DVD player), or whatever. You can also choose to leave them in WAV format and burn them directly to a RED-BOOK CD (standard Audio CD) so that you can listen to your 'tapes' on any CD player.

Hope this helps....